Utagawa Hiroshige, Oiso Station in the Rain, Original Woodcut, 1833 for sale at Pamono

Description

Oiso Station in the Rain is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 12 October 1858) in 1833-1834. Original Woodcut print Oban yokoe, lifetime impression. from the series “Tokaido gojusan tsugi no uchi” (53 stations of the Tokaido road), the station Oiso in the rain. Signed: Hiroshige ga. Publisher: Takenouchi Magohachi (Hoeid). Censorship: Kiwame. Good impression of this rare, lifetime edition specimen; rainstripe partly not visible at bottom, restored wormholes, centerfold, lacks at margins and corners, backed, glued at upper corners, stains, soiled, rubbed. Utagawa Hiroshige, born Ando Hiroshige (1797 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan’s Edo period (16031868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige’s choice of subject, though Hiroshige’s approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai’s bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige’s prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.